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Old Mar 11, 2002 | 09:42 AM
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How to jerry rig the power windows

I put the new harness in and has no PW among other things. My ? is how can I rig the window motors to open up either just once so I can get them up or make a custom swich. Im sure its easy. Thnx
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Old Mar 11, 2002 | 10:11 AM
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If you are asking what I think you are asking, I can help you out.

I did this just the other day cause my passenger window was not working. I don't remember all the wires, but I can kind of give you an idea of how to do it. First you gotta pull the power window switch out of the door, so you can have access to the harness below it. On the drivers side there should be 9 wires. A positive, a negative, 2 power supply switches for the passengers side, 2 drivers window control wires, 2 passenger window control wires, and the 3 way wire. On the passenger side, there should be 5 wires. A negative, a positive, a 3 way wire (allows drivers side to control passenger i believe?), and 2 window control wires. Since I don't remember the colors of wires, get a voltage meter and test which wires are giving you power. Well, its probly best to start with the passenger side, since the drivers side has more wires. Find out which two wires are giving you power. There should be 3 left over. Of those 3, the one in the middle of the harness should be green (i think?). Thats the 3 way switch from the drivers side. The other 2 are the ones that control the window going up and down. You will need to give these switches power using an external 12v power supply (maybe more). Touch the positive to one, the negative to another to make it go one way, reverse them to make it go the other.

For the drivers side, just look at the 2 wires you touched as well as the 2 hot wires coming in. You know those 2 are the passenger side wires, so the remaining ones on the drivers side control the drivers side window. Do the same thing as tou did to the passenger side to the drivers side and it should work.

To make a switch you will need to go find a 3 way swtich somewhere and wire it up according to its instructions.

Did this answer your question? I'm not really sure what you were asking. If not I made an *** of myself

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Old Mar 11, 2002 | 10:27 AM
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now that I think about it, you said its got no PW from the harness, which would mean there is not power getting to the PW wiring harnesses. Ok, so all the stuff I said about testing won't work. Just supply power to 2 random wires and see what happens
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Old Mar 11, 2002 | 12:19 PM
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There should be two large wires running to the window motor from the switch. Just take those two wires and supply one of them with 12 volts and the other with ground. If your window does nothing, switch the wires. Do not hold the wires on to long if the window does not move, for example if you are trying to roll the window up because it is all the way down and it's rainning; and you hook up your two wires and the window does not move, it's probably because the window is trying to go down but is already all the way down, which after awhile the motor will burn up trying to roll the window in a direction it can't. So just touch the wires and see what happens. If you have a power switch in the door already, the service manual should tell you what wires need to hook up to the switch; you probably could just tap off of a door light for the 12v, but that could over draw on that circuit and blow the fuse (or the window would go up like ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hh hhh h!
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